Graining-tool.



T. J. McELI-IENIE.

GRAINING TOOL.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 30, 1913.

1,121,273. Patented Dec. 151914.

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THOMAS J. MGELHENIE, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENN SYLVANIA, ASSIGNVOR TO THE OHIO VARNISH COMPANY, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS J. Mo- ELHENIE, a citizen of the United States,'residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Graining-Tools, (Case A,) of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings.

This invention relates to a tool for use in producing imitation graining and is of that type wherein there is a ribbed pad drawn and rocked over the surface to be grained.

The object of my invention is to provide such a tool which may produce, at one operation, graining imitative of a plurality of strips of wood side by side, preferably connected by a glue joint. The pad of my tool is so formed that, when one impression is made alongside of a preceding impression, it produces the effect of a different character of graining. These features will be hereinafter more fully described.

My graining tool is well adapted for an bodiment in a structure of the type described and claimed in Patent No. 983.627,

granted February 7, 1911, to The Ohio Var: nish Company as assignee of James 13. Lamb, and such an embodiment is shown in the drawings hereof.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a graining tool having my peculiar pad; Fig. 2 is a development of such pad; Fig. 3 is a cross section of the tool, being taken on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

As shown in the drawings, 1 indicates the body of the tool and 2 the operating handle, and 3 a graining pad. The tool has a curved lower surface on which the pad is mounted, so that the tool may be conveniently rocked and also drawn over the surface. In this operation the fingers may conveniently straddle the knob 2 and the hand rest on the concave upper surface of the tool and on the ends of it.

The form of the pad is clearly shown in Fig. 2. It consists of separate zones of concentric ribs. T hat is to say, there is a zone at having ribs 5 which are concentric about the center near the upper left hand corner of the zone; a zone 6 having ribs 7 concentric about the upper right hand corner of this zone; a zone 8 having ribs 9 concentric about a point adjacent to the lower left hand corner. The

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented De 15, '1914 Application filed August 30, 1913.

Serial No. 787-547.

ribs of the respective zones terminate opposite each other but separated by a narrow clear space, as indicated at 10 and 11; The.

pad is made of any suitable material, as rubber, for example, and is secured to the body of the tool by nails, or otherwise, as desired.

NVhen a tool having the pad just described is drawn and rocked over a surface, an imitation of three boards having different graining and connected by two glue joints is produced. zone 8 extending in a different direction from the ribs of the zone 4, it follows that, after one impression has been made of the thre boards, an adjoining impression starts with a different grain from where the first impression left off. The result is that a whole floor may be grained with this tool imitative of separate boards of successively different graining.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In a grainingtool, the combination, with a body having a curved surface, of a graining pad on said surface having arcual zones of concentric ribs, the successive zones being separated by an arcual clear space to provide an imitation of a glue joint when the'tool is rocked and drawn over a surface.

2. In a graining tool of the character described, the combination, with a body having a curved surface, of a series of arcual zones of concentric ribs on said curved sur face, the successive zones being separated by a clear space and the ribs of each zone curving differently from those of the adjacent zones.

3. In a graining tool of the character described, the combination, with a body having a curved surface, of a pad thereon having three arcual zones of ribs, the ribs of each zone being concentric, and the center about which they are struck occupying a relatively different position in each of the zones.

4. In a graining tool of the character described, the combination, with a body having a curved surface, of a pad thereon having three parallel edged arcual zones of ribs, the

ribs of each zone being concentric, and the 1 center about which they are struck occupying a relatively different position in each of the zones, the inner ends of the ribs of the extreme zones coming opposite the ends of the ribs of the intermediate zone.

By reason of the ribs of the 5. In a, graining tool of thechar'acter deate zones, such two "clear spaces being 10 scribed, the combinatiomwith a body having 2 parallel. a curved surfaceyof a padthereon having In testimonywhereof, Ihereuntbnfiii: my three arcual Zones of ribs, the ribs' of each signature'in the presence of two Witnesses.

5 Zone being concentric, and the center about Which they are struck occupying a relatively THOMAS MOELHEN'IE' difi'erent position in each of the zones th'e Witnesses: inner'ends of the extreme zones being sepa ALBERT H. BATES, rated by a clear space from" the intermedb "JAMESBLLAMB.

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